Cock of the Rock Lodge

Cock of the Rock Lodge is located at an altitude of almost 1,600 metres in the forested eastern slopes of the Andes within a private 12,500-hectare cloud forest reserve.

The lodge has fairly basic rooms with no electricity, but the bathrooms are en suite, there is plenty of hot water for showers and excellent home cooked food. The gardens are laid out with flowering plants and fruit trees attracting a large number of birds and animals to the lodge and adjacent to the property is one of the region’s largest cock-of-the-rock display grounds.

The journey to the Cock of the Rock Lodge is spectacular, crossing two high Andean passes with wildlife highlights including the puna teal, Andean duck and puna ibis. After reaching the southernmost tip of Manu National park where on a clear day the magnificent lowland Amazon can be seen stretching for miles below, the road plunges downward through elfin forest and then extensive cloud forest. This is a kingdom of mosses, lichens, orchids, bromeliads and ferns, which in some cases grow up to 33 feet per year.

Wildlife includes capuchin and woolly monkeys, spectacled bears (though rarely seen), a display ground of the Andean cock-of-the- rock, and other birds such as the emerald toucanet, torrent duck, golden-headed quetzal, grey-breasted mountain-toucan, Amazonian umbrellabird, blue-banded toucanet, fruit-eating tanagers, red-crested cotinga, banded-tail fruit-eater, tyrant flycatchers and the blue-crowned mot-mot.